Elmer Gantry

Franklin Graham is and has been a media star for some time.

He receives accolades that are usually given only to great heroes and members of noble European Aristocrats.

(Check out Lawrence O'Donnell's essay regarding this on Last Word, 2-21-12)

To begin with, Franklin Graham was born on July 14^th, 1952 in South Carolina within some Evangelical Tent.

Franklin had to fend for himself so to speak working at carnivals for corn dogs and such and was ultimately taken in by dwarfs and some guy with the world's largest foot.

He then moved on to live in the outland as our Lord Jesus Christ once had to do; living on wilderness animal dung and an occasional cactus.

His father had been a great orator and adviser to Presidents and large corporate contributors.

And yet, Franklin, after being tempted by the Devil in the desert decided to come back to his father, and seek that great man's forgiveness.

“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him” (Luke 15.20)

And it was at that time that Franklin was granted a college scholarship from his esteemed and worshiped father; well one of Dad's great foundations but just the same...

But the devil had not quite left young Franklin; as a matter of fact the devil cleaved unto young Franklin in the form of youthful high-jinks, so to speak.

Franklin, misread Genesis 6-9 for instance:

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
6:2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
6:4 The Nephilim were in the land in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man in the land, and He was grieved in His heart.
6:7 And the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

So Franklin came upon a scheme whilst attending a holy university of learning.

...while at LeTourneau, Franklin was the mastermind of an elaborate shower flood.

Franklin also misread certain chapters in Kings

Now king David was old and stricken [1] in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. 3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

So Franklin set upon a plan to keep his own Abishag locked in a closet in his dorm.-just in case as they say.

In 1971, he attended LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, and was expelled from the school for keeping a female classmate locked in his closet.

After rereading the Luke (15:20), Franklin experienced another reapproachmente with his Pops and continued his education elsewhere.

Shortly thereafter Franklin decided he had better be wedded under the normal laws of modern America and shortly after that he found himself in some motel room and found Jesus Christ as his One & Only Savior.

It was a quicker and easier way to escape kidnapping, false imprisonment and attempted murder charges at the time but over the years it led to Franklin's ability to become a great leader of sham religious organizations; paying himself a good portion of a million bucks a year and most probably more; if you include off shore investments!

Following a dutiful life taking dutiful advantage of his father's twenty five million dollar legacy; Franklin has now found a true calling on MSM.

August 20, 2010

Last night on CNN, John King decided to ask Franklin Graham, son of
Rev. Billy Graham and head of his father's evangelist association,
whether he harbored "any doubts about this president's Christian
faith." The only thing worse than the question was the answer: Graham
blamed President Obama for the growing misperception that he is a
Muslim:

I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim. His
father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father
like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a
Muslim. His father gave him an Islamic name. Now it's obvious that the
president has renounced the Prophet Muhammad and he has renounced
Islam and he has accepted Jesus Christ. That's what he says he has
done. I cannot say that he hasn't.

So I just have to believe the president is what he has said. But he --
the confusion is, is because his father was a Muslim, he was born a
Muslim. The Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs. That's
why Qaddafi calls him "my son".

They see him as a Muslim but of course the president says he is a
Christian and we just have to accept it as that.
-- end quote.

August 30, 2010 Time Mag

Franklin Graham, son of Evangelical giant Billy Graham, tells TIME that Islam is "a religion of hatred. It's a religion of war." Park51 should not be allowed, he says, because Muslim worshippers will be able to walk there, and "the entire area they walk by foot they claim as Islamic territory. They will claim now that the World Trade Center property ... is Islamic land."

February 21, 2012

The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, questioned the president's religious faith today, saying he was unsure whether Obama was a Christian.

"I think you have to ask President Obama," Graham said when asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" whether the president is a Christian. "He has said he's a Christian, so I just have to assume that he is."

While Graham said there was "no question" that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a man of faith, he doesn't know whether the president is a Christian...

You have to go by what a person says and how they live their life and where they go to church. Are they faithful church-goers? Or do they just go when the cameras are on them," Graham said.

Graham explained his belief that the Muslim world sees Obama as a "son of Islam" because of his father's religious beliefs.

"Under Islamic law, the Muslim world sees Barack Obama as a Muslim. … That's just the way it works," he said. "That's the way they see him. But, of course, he says he didn't grow up that way, he doesn't believe in that, he believes in Jesus Christ, so I accept that."

Graham also raised concerns about the president's dedication to Christians living in Muslim countries, saying Islam has had a "free pass" under the Obama administration.

"[Under] President Obama, the Muslims of the world, he seems to be more concerned about them than the Christians that are being murdered in the Muslim countries. That's what bothers me," he said.

The Great Sin

Today I come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which We are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

C.S. Lewis